Alain, Thanks for the good ideas! So I think what you are saying is that it would be nice to conditionally include some grammars as a part of the latex grammar depending on which packages you are using. This would have some very good benefits: 1. It would keep package grammars like lstlistings from making the plain latex grammar overly long. 2. This might have some speed benefits for editing as well. 3. It would also make it easy for people to incrementally add new scopes to the grammar that are specific to individual packages without having to modify the plain latex grammar. This is great. But as far as I know this is not possible in the current version of TM. Today we have to do things the other way around For example I would have to make an lstlistings grammar that included latex and tex. But this is not good at all since it only would allow me to have the specialized grammar for one particular package. So, until we get to TM 2.0 or later, or someone tells us how to conditionally include grammars, we have to keep adding to the latex grammar for each package that we want to have scoped. Brad -- Brad Miller Assistant Professor, Computer Science Luther College <div>On 9/11/07, Alain Matthes <<a href="mailto:alain.matthes@mac.com">alain.matthes@mac.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Le 11 sept. 07 à 13:23, Charilaos Skiadas a écrit : > 3) The LaTeX grammar is the basic grammar. It includes the TeX > grammar and adds all the LaTeX specific stuff. In particular, it > adds the \[ ... \] and $ ... $ math modes, and hence needs direct > access to the TeX Math bundle, which it includes at those points. > (This is why we could not simply have TeX Math as a repository in > the TeX grammar, because then the LaTeX grammar couldn't call it.) Firstly, Thanks for this answer. You understand exactly my problem I need some precisions about patterns and include: include = 'text.tex'; i understand this one but the next are not very clear for me include = '$self'; include = '$base'; > 4) For specialized document classes, at this point in time, we > simply create a new grammar that includes the LaTeX grammar and > adds its own specific stuff. (This might become simpler/better in > TM 2.0). Examples of this are the Beamer and Memoir grammars. Perhaps I need to wait for TM 2 ! Questions about Beamer 1) In text.tex.latex we have : firstLineMatch = '^\\documentclass(?!.* \{beamer\})'; and in 'text.tex.latex.beamer : firstLineMatch = '^\\documentclass(\ [.*\])?\{beamer\}'; > > 5) For commands in particular packages, we typically would add > those to the LaTeX grammar. I'm not sure that's a good way because i don't use listings (pb with utf8) and I prefer pgf/tikz to pstricks. I would like to know if it's possible to enable or disable some parts. I'm not sure but I think that's a big and long grammar is not good for the speed to match a long text. That is why , I made a remark about "listings" because it's not "pure" latex. There is now an excellent way for the preferences with a panel, we can imagine a panel for the grammar package to add : beamer, memoir, xcolor, listings, pstricks, tikz, amsmath etc... and for the author : calc ifthen etex multido Or a file in the preferences > Just make the additions you want to the grammar and send it to us, > and we would add them. (Or consult with us on what changes you > think are needed.). So for adding specific package commands, this > is the option you should aim for. for text.tex.latex I've make somme additions : {name = 'meta.preamble.latex'; contentName = 'support.class.latex'; begin = '((\\)(?:usepackage|documentclass|RequirePackage| usetikzlibrary))(?:(\[)([^\]]*)(\]))?(\{)'; and some modifications {name = 'constant.numeric.math.latex'; match = '((\+|-)?)(([0-9]*[\.][0-9]+)|[0-9]+)'; because There is constant.numeric.math.tex and no onstant.numeric.math.latex and i want the sign + or - in the same color ! for text.tex With keyword.control.tex, I've a problem with some terms like \if@tkz@visible or \ifTKZ@tkzInit@NO . The symbol @ is a problem and in a package author there a lot of terms with @. I add name = 'keyword.operator.tex' with begingroup, endgroup, global def edef xdef gdef expandafter newbox newdimen newcount advance multiply divide etc... but i'm not sure like keyword.control.tex ( with if else fi) that's necessary to a classic user of TeX. When you include text.tex in text.tex.latex , it's not a good thing. there are good package to avoid the use of if etc... for example ifthen A latex user must use \ifthenelse \newboolean \setboolean \isodd \whiledo \equal \lengthtest all these macros are in Latex and not in tex. Important keywords in LaTex are newcommand, renewcommand, newcounter, setcounter, newlength, setlength, addtolength and some keywords tex are also necessary : advance multiply divide etc... I'm sorry because a lot of ideas are not in a good order. Regards Alain ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>